Sep 30 2024 39 mins
How can we take the concept of locally led development beyond individual organizations and partners – and ultimately build a movement to improve maternal, newborn, and child health? How can a focus on supporting local and regional ecosystems enable engagement, cross-sharing, and accountability for sustained progress in quality service delivery?
In this last episode of our season focused on localization, Debrah Lewis–a midwife, co-founder of the Caribbean Regional Midwives Association, and consultant with UNFPA–joins us from Trinidad and Tobago, and Dr. Vaibhao Ambhore, Chief of Party of Saksham, a USAID-funded MNCH Accelerator project under the MOMENTUM umbrella, joins us from India.
They share concrete examples of taking local, community-informed ideas to scale. We hear about interventions that meet the intersectional needs of women and families, such as a program to address wage loss during pregnancy, and discuss the role that policy dialogue plays in creating systems-level progress for mothers and their babies.